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I keep inadvertently rocking the boat by following actual HR procedures to get, say, time off or whatever. Seems that nobody in my position has actually tried to do the things I'm trying to do, and so I'm a special case that they don't know how to handle. So they run around panicking, presumably also with their heads severed off.

I didn't know it would rock any boats, but I'll be damned if I'm going to stop pressing just because they don't know what they're doing. Not my problem. So now I'm advertently(!?) rocking the boat.

This has happened at least four times on four separate issues.

I was looking for the "slow clap" smiley and couldn't find it. It must exist. You guys should rectify that.

Parental leave? Many employers tend to be somewhere between confused and uncooperative when men want to do that - happened to a friend of mine who wanted to take parental leave and then work reduced hours to be with his daughter.

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Parental leave? Many employers tend to be somewhere between confused and uncooperative when men want to do that - happened to a friend of mine who wanted to take parental leave and then work reduced hours to be with his daughter.

Yup. This is the example that's most pressing, but I've pissed people off by following procedures many times, usually by 'breaking new ground.' (There have also been many, many times where I've purposefully circumvented them, though. People don't like that either. No consequence to me? Tough titties; they'll get over it.)

We're legally entitled to three whole damn months. Everyone I know has taken only a week or two for paternity, which isn't an issue. I ain't doing that. The problem facing my employer as a whole is where the money to pay me for three whole damn months is going to come from. My colleagues and I don't want it to come out of any of our projects' budgets, because that'd be pissing our money away. That'd be.. not exactly in our best interests.

FMLA leave is taken concurrently with existing leave. You know how much leave I have saved up? About a billion hours. This is my one chance to use a good portion of it to my advantage.

I know I've been gone a long time, but I love ranting here! So here goes:

Dear Sales Rep - I'm a vendor. Which means you being a dick to me only equates to me pushing this off to the person who hired me. I don't get paid to take crap from you. That's why I am not an employee. So put your penis back inside - not impressed. Azul